Elephant Treaties

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Based on a legal history of international biodiversity treaties from the late nineteenth century to the present, Rachelle Adam argues that todayAs biodiversity crisis is rooted in European colonial history, especially in the conservation treaties that the colonial powers (and their non-governmental counterparts) negotiated to protect AfricaAs big-game animals. Reflecting on the colonial pastAparticularly on efforts to manage the commerce in elephant ivoryAAdam sheds light on why more recent attempts to arrest the decline in biodiversity by way of international agreement have failed. This volume will spur a rethinking of such agreements and trigger a search for alternatives outside of existing international structures.261 iuCn under the leadership of Coolidge was drawn into the politics ofthe ap-
proaching end of Spanish rule. In a 1966 incident, iuCn attempted to use its
reputation as an eminent international conservation organization to persuade the
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Elephant Treaties

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Rachelle Adam

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UPNE - 2014-01-07

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